Picture-mounting device



A. W. ENGEL.

PICTURE MOUNTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION man MAY14.I920- L38@,?71 Patented Aug. 9, 11921.

INVEIVTOR I1 A TTORNE Y6 ALBERT ENGEL, OCECHIGAGQ, ILLINOIS.

PICTURE-MOUNTING DEVICE.

Application filed May 14,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT W. ENGEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook?- and the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picture-Mounting Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved device for securing photographs or other pictures and cards upon a mat, card, or other mount, in a convenlent and ornamental manner. It consists in the features of construction shown and described, as set out in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view showing a card or picture secured to a mount by the corner fitting embodying this invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the device located at the corner of the picture.

Fig. 3 is a detail view of the device unattached.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the device arranged in a difierent manner.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing a slightly modified form of the device.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of the devlce shown in Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a view showing the device illus trated in Fig. 5, but used in a different way.

The drawings represent a mount, 1. 2 is a picture to be mounted. 3 is a corner piece or mounting device. In the form shown 1n Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, said corner piece or mounting device is a substantlally rlghtangular or L-shaped piece of card or paper of suitable thickness having gum or mucllage applied to one side. There is an angular aperture, 4, formed by cuttlng or slitting the mounting device, no material being cut away. In Fig. 3 in dotted line, is indlcated the possibility of producing the devlce without waste of material, the extending portions and widths thereof being equal.

The form shown in Fig. 6 may be similarly produced, but with the exception that Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

1920. Serial no. 381,248.

a corner, 6, shown in dotted line, is removed, leaving the slits, 4*, open.

In both the forms shown there are two slits at an angle to each other, which in one of the forms meet forming an angular or L-shaped slit. The purpose of slitting in all of the forms is to admit a corner of the card or picture which is to be mounted, so that a substantial part of it shall be on each slde of the mounting device without obscuring the outline of the corner of the card, (though said device may be formed and applied in such manner as illustrated in Fig. 7, so as to exactly overlie the corner in conformation therewith), and for this purpose,for admitting the corner of the card as stated,obviously the two slits or portions of the angular slit must be in free communication with each other at their proximate ends. This is efi'ected by their meeting in the form having the L-shaped slit, and by their emergence at the edge of the same side of the device in the other form.

The device may be applied in various ways, producing different artistic effects; the first shown producing the appearance of an open square with one corner thereof omitted; in Fig. 4 the same device is made to appear as having the peculiar formation of a ziz-zag strip placed at the corner. These results are produced by introducing the corner of a picture in the slit, 4, so that it will overlap or underlie the right-angle corner, 7, included in the angle formed by the angular slit, 4. By comparing Figs. 4-, and 5, it will be noticed that the same resulting effect is produced by both forms; the device used in Fig. 5 being the one detailed in Fig. 6, and the absence of a corner piece thereof not making any change because of the way it is applied. But, in Fig. 7, the last mentioned form is shown applied with the right-angled portion, 7", resulting from the angle slit and the corner of the picture concurrent with portions or tabs, 8, 8, beyond or outside thereof gummed to the mount, 1.

I claim:

1. A picture mounting device consisting of a corner fitting gummed upon one side,

adapted to be secured partly to the picture and partly to the mount therefor, and for that purpose having tWo slits at an angle to each other with open communication at 5 their roximateends V '2. picture mounting device consisting of a corner fitting gummed on one side, adapted to be secured partly 'to'the picture and partly to the mount therefor; Withan angular slit in said fitting ada ted to re- 10:

ceive the corner of a picture or lapping the corner portion over a part of the fitting and under the remainder. V l

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Chicago, Illinois, this 12th'day 15 of May, 1920. c

-. ALBERTW. ENGEL; 

